Fuzzy C-Means in High Dimensional Spaces

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Author(s): Roland Winkler (German Aerospace Center, Germany), Frank Klawonn (Ostfalia University, Germany)and Rudolf Kruse (Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 16
Source title: Contemporary Theory and Pragmatic Approaches in Fuzzy Computing Utilization
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Toly Chen (Feng Chia University, Taiwan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1870-1.ch001

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence / Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference

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High dimensions have a devastating effect on the FCM algorithm and similar algorithms. One effect is that the prototypes run into the centre of gravity of the entire data set. The objective function must have a local minimum in the centre of gravity that causes FCM’s behaviour. In this paper, examine this problem. This paper answers the following questions: How many dimensions are necessary to cause an ill behaviour of FCM? How does the number of prototypes influence the behaviour? Why has the objective function a local minimum in the centre of gravity? How must FCM be initialised to avoid the local minima in the centre of gravity? To understand the behaviour of the FCM algorithm and answer the above questions, the authors examine the values of the objective function and develop three test environments that consist of artificially generated data sets to provide a controlled environment. The paper concludes that FCM can only be applied successfully in high dimensions if the prototypes are initialized very close to the cluster centres.

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